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Armando Iannucci's foul-mouthed and funny The Death of Stalin, a comedy depicting the intricate, frenetic power struggle after the old monster's death in 1953, would be a brilliant, harrowing film even without all its contemporary...

Warwick Thornton's Aussie Western Sweet Country is a lyrical meditation on a significant but subtle turning point in his country's history: the moment where some white colonizers struggling in the outback turned against slavery, not...

You can tell just how full of it the makers of the exploitative documentary Demon House are by the way they constantly present reality-show theatrics as evidence of a real-life haunting. Director Zak Bagans, the host of generic...

A narrator tells us at the outset of Koki Shigeno's Ramen Heads that ramen, unlike upscale, elegant sushi, is seen as a "casual, cheap, immediate" comfort food. That may be the experience for consumers, sitting in cramped, unadorned dining...

Romantic comedies are always looking to reinvent themselves, and Rachel Israel's debut feature Keep the Change arrives as a fresh iteration that still calls back to the genre's Nora Ephron-wave classics. The story follows the familiar arc...

Dear DictatorWhat happens when a disaffected teen with a penchant for platform boots becomes pen pals with a murderous dictator? Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse attempt to answer this preposterous question with their lightly subversive teen comedy...

As the writer/director of Ingrid Goes West and now the writer -- along with Alex McAulay and Max Winkler -- of the teen comic drama Flower (directed by Winkler), Matt Spicer is claiming a niche as the go-to guy for adding drama and...